Monday, September 16, 2013

Not failing

Waking up to swim on a Monday morning is quite possibly the most difficult thing to do after a "weekend"

As a sidenote, I'm officially announcing that Brian Stover has killed "the weekend" for me. Weekends used to be a glorious time of not working, of resting, of going out at night, of watching movies, of whatever-you-wanna-do-awesomeness.

Nowadays it means workouts from 9am to 5pm on Saturday (including travel, prep, eating, etc and that's with a late start) and 9am to 2pm on Sunday (and the rest of the day is basically a wash as all energy available is used to sit on the couch)

3000 yards of IM is a lot of IM in one swim practice

I think this flat-lined my shoulders for the rest of the week

What doesn't kill you makes you...stronger?

4 bike workouts and 2 run workouts a week is quite a lot (I mean ACTUAL workouts, not "sessions" as some people like to call them)

18+ miles of running in one day is the most I've done since 2010

25 minutes of tempo, on paper, isn't too bad

In real life, in the middle of a 2 hour run, it's mentally crushing

For the first time in what feels like...ever? I managed to complete each bike workout for the week as written.